J.B. Pritzker
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 30 Apr
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I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly, but I know the history intimately and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust.
Here's what I've learned.
The root that tears apart your house's foundation begins as a seed, a seed of distrust and hate and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn't arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
I'm watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now.
A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac and suggests without facts or findings that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash.
The Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too female and non-white.
The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here.
They point to a group of people who don't look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.
I just have one question.
What comes next?
After we've discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities, once we've ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends, after that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face, what comes next?
All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question.
And if we don't want to repeat history, then for God's sake, in this moment, we'd better be strong enough to learn from it.
I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln's Bible.
Make them pay attention.
I solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of governor according to the best of my ability.
My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.
don't have kings in america and i don't intend to bend the knee to one i'm not speaking up in service to my ambitions but in deference to my obligations if you think i'm overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon consider this
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